Tag Archives: Business

Business trends are always changing, but one thing hasn’t. Martial arts studios should be run as businesses. Aside from mastering your discipline, every Master, Teacher, and business owner should also know the ways of doing business. But what if you say “I’m just teaching kids in my neighborhood in my garage”. Sure, you don’t have to pay any rent or ...

What makes a Master successful? Is it the total learning of all the secrets of martial arts? Is it becoming rich by being a successful small business owner? Or is it producing the best students and bringing forth the new hope for martial arts? Some people may only choose one from the options that I’ve listed, but I really do ...

There are a lot of reasons why girls or women are rarely seen on the mat. Most of the world’s cultures think that physical activities like sports (in this case, martial arts) are more suited for boys rather than girls. In the old days, men were the ones who took the responsibility to fight on the battlefield, so they learned ...

In our last article we’ve talked about creating a better and more unified team. Now, I will be talking directly to those team members on how to be their best. But you don’t need to be an employee to appreciate this article. You can be the owner who just wants to know more information to share with the staff or ...

From a past article we have learned the importance of delegating work to other people. These may be your family members or your employees. These people, act like cogs to the machinery which is your martial arts studio and for the business to run smoothly, you need to make sure that those cogs are in sync and aligned. In this ...

Let’s face it; we now live in the age of the internet. Newspapers, books, radio, and even TV has been slowly being replaced by computers that can do it all. The good thing is, it’s not too late to jump in the bandwagon and take part in the digital marketing revolution. One advantage of using the internet is the huge ...

Learning how to delegate work is a skill which every martial arts teacher should know. We all know that this is important because a single body cannot do everything that needs to be done. If you have a lot of work that needs to be done, you should consider passing the responsibility to another person, or, you can just use ...

Being A Martial Arts Dad and Teacher Health and Nutrition MABM Opening Monologue My First Day As A Martial Arts Teacher My First Day in the Martial Arts Oh, For the Sake of the Children Our Recent Travels Prenatal Breathing Professor Ed Malley a 1987 Article Respect The Awakening Traveling About With Every Breath You Take Women Taking Precautions Health ...

I present to you a video on training  your Chi Internal Energy. I did an intimate training course with a small group of martial artists way back. Thought to be lost forever, I happen to come by this old recording!

In 1447, Iizasa Choisai Ienao dedicated his life to worshipping at the Katori Shinto Jinja (shrine). While worshipping there one day, engaged in martial arts training, which was an aspect of his Shinto discipline and purification, a divine being appeared to him and presented him with a book on strategy, written reportedly by divine hands. This book, called the HEIHO ...